Re: [MiNT] pppd

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>]

"Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de> writes:

|> > From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
|> > Of Guido Flohr
|> > Sent: Friday, April 16, 1999 11:56 AM
|> > To: MiNT mailing list
|> > Subject: Re: [MiNT] pppd
|> >
|> >
|> > On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 10:52:14AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
|> > > Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com> writes:
|> > >
|> > > |> > > Perhaps because bash never implemented proper prompting options?
|> > > |> >
|> > > |> > Hu? What do you mean? Are $PS1 for simple prompts and
|> > $PROMPT_COMMAND
|> > > |> > for more complex ones not enough? Or are you actually
|> > meaning something
|> > > |> > different?
|> > > |>
|> > > |> Neither strings change what options are available.  For instance,
|> > > |> bash doesn't have any escape code to explicitely make the prompt
|> > > |> show in BOLD, but tcsh does.
|> > >
|> > > Of course, it has: PS1="\[$(tput bold)\]foobar\[$(tput sgr0)\]"
|> >
|> > That requires tput which belongs to ncurses and is not part of KGMD,
|> > doesn't it?  Anyway, ncurses should be pretty-standard even on MiNT today.
|> 
|> How often will this be evaluated? Every time the prompt appears?

No, look at the quotes.

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